Let's Connect - Book Online or In-Person
As a team of psychology and mental health consultation specialists, LifeConnect aims to provide personalised, individual care across a broad range of needs. With psychologists in North Sydney, as well as a broad range of easily-accessible online psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy services available throughout Australia, finding mental health care and support can easily fit into a busy lifestyle.
Book an initial consultation online or give us a call, and we’ll connect you with the right person for your situation.
About Us
LifeConnect is a private practice of highly qualified and experienced clinical psychologists and psychotherapists in North Sydney and Byron Bay. We use evidence-based treatment methods to support individual and relationship counselling as well as family therapy. All our services are confidential.
Our ideal is to help people face life's challenges from new perspectives with new knowledge and experience, adding vigour, direction and meaning to life.
THE INITIAL CONSULTATION IS 90 MINUTES if you do not have a gp referral. THE FIRST 30 MINUTES IS WITHOUT CHARGE.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Cultivate psychological resilience, reduce stress and improve your focus
Our Services
LifeConnect practitioners are highly skilled in different types of therapy. Scientific studies show that therapy is most successful when the treatment is matched to the challenge you are facing and you feel confident and happy with your psychologist or psychotherapist.
In our first session with you, we will help you to find the right treatment and practitioner.
Clinical Psychology
Our clinical psychologists have developed expertise in treating a range of mental health conditions.
Counselling and Psychotherapy
This is for people who may wish to look a little deeper into some of the causes, triggers or influences that may precipitate suffering.
Relationship Therapy
Relationship Therapy helps improve communication, increasing intimacy by gaining deeper understanding of the relationship challenges and potential sources of stress.
Life Coaching and Career Development
Coaching is helpful for people who would like support to reach a specific goal.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction
Cultivate psychological resilience by increasing awareness, reducing stress and improve your focus.
The Couplet Program
An online program providing couples with practical and creative tools to effectively map out a shared vision of their future.
Couplet
Couplet is an online program that provides couples with practical and creative tools to effectively map out a shared vision of their future.
Meet the Team
David Baldwin - Clinical Psychologist, North sydney and Online
A director at LifeConnect with private practice experience spanning over three decades, David is available as a psychologist at our North Sydney location. David offers Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and psychotherapy, along with offering his experience in career development and corporate coaching. As a registered clinical psychologist, David also offers Medicare Rebates.
Cheryl Assuage - Psychotherapist, Byron Bay and Online
A director at LifeConnect with over 30 years of private practice experience in psychotherapy and relationship counselling. Cheryl offers 90-minute initial consultations, with the first 30 minutes being free, across a wide selection of counselling and psychotherapy services, including developmental psychology, Buddhist psychotherapy, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), among others.
Lonneke van der Laan - Psychologist, North Sydney and online
As a registered psychologist at our North Sydney location, Lonneke has experience in both hospital and private practice environments, supporting adults with an emphasis on adjustment issues, grief, loss, pregnancy support and depression.
Judith Lehmann - Psychologist, North Sydney and online
A registered psychologist in North Sydney, Judith has over 15 years of experience, over a decade of which is with LifeConnect. Through her work, Judith has supported both couples and individuals with compassion and depth of knowledge that has made her a pillar of the LifeConnect team.